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This is Dennett in action: reflecting, joking, clarifying, criticizing -- and always stimulating...Anyone interested in the philosophy of mind will find both interest and excitement in these essays. -- Margaret Boden, Sussex University

About the Author

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.

Reviews

Dennett's essays are vivid, witty and admirably provocative.—P. N. Johnson­Laird, The London Review of Books